[from here (http://community.livejournal.com/damned/446999.html?thread=36456471)]

Distracted by an autumn leaf on the ground (it was shaped a little like a two-headed stegosaurus), Wash's wandering nearly caused a collision. He stopped abruptly, just in time to keep himself from walking directly into the woman.

"Hi. Sorry. I wasn't..." He gestured. "Looking. Actually, I was looking, just not in front."